Mon Apr 11, 2022 – 11:11 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – U.K. pro-lifer, doctor, and ethicist Calum Miller is one of his country’s most eloquent defenders of pre-born children. I first came across his work after he brilliantly defended the Texas Heartbeat Act in an almost entirely hostile BBC interview (he came on my podcast to discuss his work shortly thereafter). Recently, Dr. Miller published a paper in the Ethiopian Medical Journal, the official journal of the Ethiopian Medical Association. Counter to the claims of abortion activists pushing to decriminalize abortion around the world, Dr. Miller’s research illustrated that legalizing abortion did nothing to prevent morbidity and mortality from illegal abortion, but actually made the problem worse.
Dr. Calum Miller laid out his findings in an interview.
What made you embark on this study?
I first got interested in this topic because I often heard the claim that banning abortion won’t save any babies, but it will kill women. Now of course banning abortion saves babies – that is as empirically settled as anything could possibly be – but it’s still heartbreaking that women die from illegal abortions. I noticed that most pro-lifers have a principled response
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